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DAVIESS CO., KY (WFIE) - A Western Kentucky school district is getting grant money to make its bus fleet more energy efficient.
The grant is called the Kentucky Clean Bus Grant and the Daviess County Public Schools are receiving $87,000 from the grant.
The grant will help retro fit 57 of the district's older busses with parts that will cut back on emissions.
It's all part of a green initiative the district is taking.
The district is also implementing an idling policy to help cut back on emissions.
"With these busses sitting still, they're not air tight when the doors are shut so a lot of the exhaust fumes will go back into the busses," Daviess County School Transportation Director Wayne Wright said. "Even on our school grounds, they're, when they're all lined up they're one right in front of each other. When you walk out in the afternoon students are loading you can smell the diesel fuel and those type things."
It will take about a year to retro fit all 57 of the busses with the parts.
However, the district put the new no idling policy into place at the beginning of this school year.
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